Review for The Times Higher – published 1 September 2006
Capitalism as if the World Matters
By Jonathan Porritt,
Earthscan Publications Ltd, 336pp, Hardcover £18.99
ISBN: 1844071928
Published 1 November 2005
Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
By Lester Brown,
W W Norton & Co Ltd, 352pp, Paperback £10.99
ISBN: 0393328317
Published February 28, 2006
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Posted in hypermobility, vashti on August 21st, 2006 4 Comments »
My nomination for the most prescient work of science fiction is The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. Writing in 1909, not only did he anticipate television, the Internet, video conferencing, email, Amazon, Google and Globalization but, more significantly, the impact that they would have on our lives.
It is a short story about a world in [...]
Posted in letters, risk, seat belts on August 6th, 2006 No Comments »
Letter to the editor of the British Medical Journal, 26 June, 2006, commenting on Unsafe driving behaviour and four wheel drive vehicles: observational study, by Lesley Walker, Jonathan Williams and Konrad Jamrozik.
EDITOR — Walker et al show convincingly that drivers and other occupants of heavy four wheel drive vehicles are safer in crashes than those [...]
